Receptacle.



No. 804,320. PATENTBD NOV. 14, 1905. M. A. HOWARD.

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APPLICATION FILED JAN. 27,1903. RENBWBD MAY 1, 1905.

a a a a Uil@ MARY A. HOWARD, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

RECEPTACLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14, 1905.

Application filed January 27, 1903. Renewed May l, 1905. Serial No. 258,336.

To @Z whom t Hetty concern.:

Be it known that I, MARY A. HOWARD, acitizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bottles, jars, and

other receptacles, and has for its object to provide an improved closure therefor whereby ingress of germs and other deleterious matter is effectually prevented and the receptacle cannot be opened without clearly indicating the fact, thereby obviating fraudulent refilling of the receptacle. It is furthermore designed to arrange for breaking the neck of the receptacle to permit decanting of its contents and also to provide for conveniently and effectually covering and concealing the jagged edge of the broken neck in order that the receptacle may be safely and conveniently handled after the neck has been broken.

With these and other objects in View the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter morev fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the present invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional View of a bottle-neck embodying the features of the present invention. Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the neck broken to permit decantingof the contents of the bottle. Fig. 3 is a detail side elevation of the outer and non-removable stopper. Fig. I is a detail perspective view of the spring-fastening device for the outer stopper. Fig. 5 is a sectional perspective view of the cap for the outer end of the bottle-neck, and Fig. 6 is a view of one of the wire bands for holding the sterilized packing in place.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the figures of the drawings.

Although the present invention is applicable to jars and receptacles in general, it has been shown in the accompanying drawings as applied to an ordinary glass bottle to illustrate one embodiment of the invention.

As shown in Figs. l and 2 of the drawings, the numeral l designates the body portion of a glass bottle having the usual neck 2 rising therefrom. The outer portions of the inner walls of the neck are substantially parallel, while the greater portions of said walls converge inwardly or downwardly from an inner annular groove or seat 3 for a purpose that will be hereinafter described. Near the outer I end of the neck there is an external annular bead or ange 4, and about midway of the neck is a corresponding bead or flange 5, and at a point between said beads the neck is provided with an internal annular groove 6,which is designed to render the neck comparatively thin at this point, so as to permit of the neck being readily broken when it is desired to decant the contents of the bottle.

Within the bottle-neck and situated at the inner end thereof is a plug or stopper 7, preferably formed of cork, which has been forced into the neck from the outer end thereof and is thereby wedged between the converged inner walls of the neck. The upper portion of this stopper is reduced, or, in other words, the stopper has a central upwardly-projected reduced stem portion 8, which terminates at or slightly below the plane of the groove 6. A central longitudinal bore or perforation eX- tends through the stopper and the stem portion thereof, and a glass tube 9 is fitted snugly in said bore, there being a small cork or stopper l0 removably fitted in the outer end of the tube, so as to normally close the same.

Above the inner stopper 7 is an outer stopper 1l, preferably formed of glass, porcelain, or the like and separated from the inner stopper by an intervening space. As best illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings, it will be seen that the stopper l0 is provided with an annular groove or seat 12, which is disposed -substantially midway 'between the top and bottom ends of the stopper, and at diametrically opposite sides of the stopper straight grooves 13 intersect the seat and extend downwardly through the bottom of the stopper. In the groove 12 a metallic band 14 is fitted, and from this band depend diametrically opposite spring-arms 15, which fit in the respective grooves 13 and are provided at their lower free ends with rebent hooks or catches 16, which are disposed upon the outer sides of the arms and are adapted to snap into engagement with the groove or seat 3 in the inner walls of the neck, and thereby prevent removal of the stopper 11. observed that as the inner walls of the neck converge inwardly from the groove 3 said It will here be IOO IIO

convergence limits the inward insertion of the stopper 11, and thereby prevents the latter from being pushed too far into the neck.

In order that germs and other deleterious matter may not have access to the interior of the bottle, the space between the two stoppers is filled with a packing 17 of fibrous material, preferably cotton, which has been previously sterilized. This sterilized fibrous packing is held snugly about the stem por-` tion 8 of the stopper 7 by means of a wire ring or band 18, which is drawn tightly about the packing and then has its ends twisted, as indicated at 19 in Fig. 6, the base of the stem portion 8 being provided with an annular groove or seat 20, into which a portion of the packing is snugly drawn by the ring or band. It will be of course understood that the packing' is applied to the stopper before the latter has been tted into the bottle-neck, said packing being placed -around the stopper at all sides thereof and thev wire band or ring drawn about the middle portion of the packing, after which the lower end portion of the latter is folded inwardly and upwardly and, together with the upper end portion of the packing, is drawn over the top of the stopper, where it is held in place by means of a Wire ring or band 21, similar to the band 18. When the stopper 7 has been fitted into place, the upper free end portions of.I the packing are spread outwardly and forced downwardly into the bottle-neck, so that when the outer stopper 11 is forced into place the packing will be snugly compressed between the two Stoppers, and thereby entirely fill the space between said Stoppers.

Over the top or outer end of the bottle-neck is fitted a metallic cap consisting of a fiat metallic disk 22 to lie against the top edge of the bottle-neck and the top face of the stop-l per 11 and provided with a pendent peripheral flange 23 to snugly embrace the bottleneck and having an outwardly-disposed annular bead 24 pressed therein to form an inner annular groove or seat to snugly receive the outer flange4 of the bottle-neck, and thereby prevent accidental displacement of the cap. It will here be noted that the bead 24 forms a spring-catch to snap into engagement with the projection or keeper formed by flange 4. At the center of the disk portion 22 of the cap there is an opening 25.

When it is desired to have access to the interior of the bottle or receptacle, the neck thereof is broken at the plane of the groove 6, whereby the upper portion of the packing is exposed and the wire ring or band 2l is re- `moved therefrom, after which the upper portion of thepacking is spread radially outward and folded over the jagged broken peripheral edge of the bottle-neck, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The cap 22 is then removed from the outerend portion of the bottle-neck and is applied to that portion of the outer end of the inner stopper. whereby the supplemental plug or stopper 10 may be removed and the contents of the bottle decanted or poured out through the bore or glass tube 9.

kFrom the foregoing description it is ap.

parent that the present invention embraces two very important features, the first of which consists in the provision of the sterilized packing, which covers the outer end of the inner stopper for the purpose of excluding germs and the like. The other important feature consists in arranging for transferring the cap from the brokenfofil portion of the bottle-neck to that portion thereof which remains upon the bottle, thereby to effectually cover the sharp ragged edge of the broken neck in order that the bottle may be conveniently and safely handled. Furthermore, as some of the packing' is embraced between the flange of the cap and the'bottle-neck there is a binding action between these three parts which tends to hold the cap in place and prevent looseness thereof.

What is claimed isl. A receptacle, having a closure-plug within the mouth thereof and provided at its outer end with a reduced stem portion, packing embracing the stem and filling the space between the latter and the walls of the mouth of the receptacle, a fastening-band embracing the packing and the base portion of the stem, theouter portion of the packing being gathered over the top of the stern, and a band embracing said gathered portions of the packing.

2. Areceptacle, having aclosure-plug within the mouth thereof and provided with an opening for the escape of the contents of the receptacle, a removable closure for the outer end of the opening, and packing embracing the outer portion of the plug and gathered over the top thereof.

3. A receptacle, having inner and outer spaced closures, the inner closure having a reduced outwardly-extending.stem portion and provided with an opening extending through said stern, a removable closure for the opening, and packing filling the space between the two first-mentioned closures, said packing embracing the stem ofthe inner closure and gathered together4 and fastened across the outer end of the inner closure.

4. A receptacle, having an inner annular groove in the neck thereof to reduce the thickness of the neck for breaking the same, and also provided with another inner annular groove disposed above the first-mentioned groove, a closure-plug fitted within the neck IOO IIO

at the inner side of the intermediate groove I3 0 and provided with a reduced stem portion at its outer end, there being a bore or opening extending entirely through the stem and the plug, a removable closure for the outer end of the opening, fibrous packing embracing the stem and gathered over the top thereof, a wire band embracing the gathered portion of the packing', and a non-removable plug litted in the outer end of the neck and provided with spring-catches which engage the outer groove, the sterilized packing entirely filling the space between the two plugs.

5. A receptacle having its neck provided with a thin portion to permit breakage thereof, a cap having an opening and removably fitted to the outer end of the neck, and means at opposite sides ofthe thin portion of the neck for alternate 'engagement by the cap to fasten the latter to the neck, whereby the cap may be iitted to the broken edge of the neck after the outer end has been removed therefrom.

6. A receptacle having aneck provided with a thin portion to permit breakage thereof, external projections carried by thel neck at opposite sides of the thin portion thereof, and a cap having means for alternate engagement with said projections, whereby the cap may be litted to the broken edge of the neck after the outer end portion thereofhas been removed.

7. A receptacle, having its neck provided with an intermediate annular thin portion to permit breakage thereof, external annular shoulders upon the neck at opposite sides of the thin portion thereof, and a cap havingacylindrical lange to embrace the neck and provided with an inner' annular groove to alternately embrace the respective annular shoulders.

8. A receptacle, having its neck provided with an intermediate annular groove to reduce the thickness of the neck and permit breakage thereof, an annular groove within the neck and at the outer side of the groove, external annular shoulders at opposite sides of the groove, a plug fitted within the neck at the inner side ot' the groove and provided with an outwardly-directed reduced stem, there being a bore or opening extending entirely through the stem and the plug, a removable closure for the outer end of the bore, a plug fitted in the outer end of the neck and provided with spring-catches snapped into engagement with the groove, a cap litted to the outer end of the neck and provided with a central opening and also having a cylindrical flange embracing the neck, the flange being provided with an outwardly-pressed bead snapped into engagement with the upper annular shoulder and capable of engagement with the lower shoulder when the bottle neck has been broken, a iibrous packing embracing the stem of the inner stopper and lling the space between the two Stoppers, a band embracing the packing and securing the same to the base of the stem, and another band embracing the outer portion of the packing and securing the same across the outer end of the stem.

MARY A. HOWARD. 1n presence of- WV. L. MoRRow, A. L. PHELPs. 

